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PORT CLINTON - While many celebrate July 4 with food, drinks and relaxation and maybe a swimming to cool off on a hot summer day, around 150 people decided to keep cool with a 5K race and squirt guns filled with cold water.

Sue and Al Benedict and their family have run in the annual Star Spangled Squirt Gun Run the past four years, even though they call Solon home. The Benedicts own property in the area and visit Port Clinton in the summer.

"We've been running in the past four years, it's for a good cause," said Sue.

The money raised from entry fees for runners and donations is used by the Port Clinton Women's Club to provide scholarships to women entering college.

Roseann Hickman said the event raises between $4,000 and $5,000 a year.

"The scholarships go to graduating women and adult women who are returning back to college," said Roseann Hickman.

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Rob and son Ryder McNerney of Solon practice crossing the finish line at the annual Star Spangled Squirt Gun Run in Port Clinton Thursday.(Photo: Craig Shoup/The News Herald)

Hickman and the Women's Club took over the event after it was originally started by Gabe DeFreitas in 2013 as a way to raise money for his Port Clinton High School prom.

Now, six years later, the run continues supporting those in the community.